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California · Nonprofit
THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT (California) is funded by 125 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $11,638,382 in grants to it, the largest being SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND ($2,385,274). 73 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 2,461 human services nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,461 human services nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Revenue, expenses and net assets — each indexed to 100 at its first filing year, so you read the trajectory, not the magnitude. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
The funding model — what share of revenue comes from contributions, programs, investments and other sources — and whether it's shifting.
Government-grant reliance: 2024 15%. Grants only — government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
88% of THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
$141k from 5 funders in 2025, up from $487k and 27 in 2017.
22 of 125 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 50% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 125 funders by total. Association, not causation.
THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 11% · 2019 18% · 2020 18% · 2021 15% · 2022 15% · 2023 24% · 2024 36% · 2025 71% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
40% of THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year.
THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside California — its reputation reaches beyond the state, across 26 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 125 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $595k on record.
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
82% of spending goes to programs.
83%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 125funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. view filing